Catholic schools systems throughout the world need a root and branch clear out!! They must be rid of nominal Catholic leadership.....and replaced with committed Catholics or New Movements or the Traditionals or whatever.

Check www.gregclovis.co.uk/latest-news for the tale of a parent's attempt to raise awareness of the vile Religious Education taking place in a London 'Catholic' school. This time the bishops must ACT!

I really wish I could say I am surprised. I went to a Catholic University and recieved a bachelors degree in Philosophy in a department that had a pro-abortion lawyer/professor teaching about "death and dying" issues. He also had some friends come in and give the Philosophy club a lecture on transendental medititation, which explained what shakra's are. Also the religious studies departement of the University was headed and still is, by a professor who likes to blend Catholicism and Socialism. He's been writing about since the 1970's and supporting people linked to the Zapatistas in Mexico. Just to let you know the Univesity is in Loretto Pennsylvania USA and has the letters SFU for an abrivated title.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12
Let there not be found among you anyone who immolates his son or daughter in the fire, nor a fortune-teller, soothsayer, charmer, diviner, or caster of spells, nor one who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead. Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is driving these nations out of your way.

St. Bonaventure U is backing off.

From the link:

Update: Saint Bonaventure University released this statement concerning this incident:

While some university staff were aware of the students’ plans to host this event, there was a lack of awareness by these staff and students of the conflict of this activity with our mission. We therefore took the opportunity to educate our students and involved staff about the conflict with mission. Our students were earlier that same week involved with events associated with the Franciscan World Day of Prayer for Peace, and others dedicated their midterm break to volunteering at the St. Francis Inn Soup Kitchen in Philadelphia. Given these and countless other frequent activities that represent our mission, it would be irresponsible for anyone to characterize this isolated event as reflective of the University’s or our students’ Catholic-Franciscan character or identity.

The Catechism explicitly condemns what they are doing:

2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future ( Deut 18:10; Jer 29:8).
Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.